The Chicago star., September 07, 1946, Page 3, Image 3

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42-year race ban broken by Stat
By RICHARD DURHAM
The STAR this week cracked Coyne electrical school's 42-year
old Jim Crow policy.
The country's largest electrical training center has declared
it will open its doors to Negro students.
Covne dropped its tradi
tional race-hate rule after the
STAR’S exclusive expose of
discrimination against minority
race veterans under the GI Bill
of Rights.
« * *
“NEGROES who meet our re
quirements will be admitted as
soon as our prior commitments
permit,” declared Coynes man
ager, C. S. Narlan.
While Narlan contended that
a “long waiting list” prevent
ed the school from opening its
doors to Negroes until “Au
gust, 1947” veteran leaders
here pressed for an immediate
admittance of Negro Gl’s.
Narlan declared that the change
had been made after a meeting
of the school’s board of directors.
*= * *
IT after the anti-Negro
policy of the rich trade school
had been blasted repeatedly by
Chicago veterans following the
STAR'S four-week series.
The STAR had revealed that
95 percent of Coyne’s 1,800 stu
Unity marks city's
CIO-PAC fund drive
Unity of CIC unions in the election campaign in Chicago this
Fall received added impetus this week, as the newly-formed PAC
fund-raising committee went into motion.
Created by unanimous agree
ment at a meeting last Wednes
day, August 28th, called by CIO
Vice-President and Organization
al Director Allan S. Haywood,
the committee has assumed full
responsibility to raise PAC funds
among all international unions in
the area.
The committee consists of 11
members, headed by CIO Region
al Director Burt J. Mason. They
include Samuel Levin, State CIO
President; Reid Robinson, Presi
dent of the Mine, Mill & Smelter
Workers; and Grant Oakes, Pres
ident of the Farm Equipment
Workers.
‘O, Give Me a Home ’ is a popular song!
By LEONARD C. LEWIN
Housing is a great thing, and
every politician says he’s for it
even Senator Taft.
Not only that, but you can be
sure that everything is going to
turn out peachy. Everybody
will have a home.
And that being the case, you
will probably have no use for
this handy little guide on home
hunting unless, of course,
you happen to be one of the
homeless beneficiaries of free
enterprise.
• # •
WHAT do you do when
dents were being trained under
the GI Bill of Rights. A mixed
delegation of veterans had met
with Robert D. Beer, managei of
the Veterans Administration to
demand that Coyne and other
race-quota trade schools be drop
ped from the GI approval list.
* * *
Despite the flat refusal of Beer
to take action to end discrimina
tion against Negro Gl’s, the vet
erans delegation, chaired by
William Simms of the American
Veterans Committee, had met
with officials of Coyne.
Investigation of Coyne’s race
hate policy began after the
STAR’S receipt of the school’s
application blank which stated
“We have no facilities for Ne
groes.”
Similiar schools approved by
the Veterans Administration but
with rigid race restrictions in
cluded Gregg Shorthand College,
Bryant and Stratton’s business
school, and the LaSalle Extension
University.
Meanwhile the STAR has open-
NMU moves for full
Lakes strike victory
The National Maritime Union
this week closed in on the last
hold-out shipping companies in
its two-week strike on the Great
Lakes.
NMU called off its bitterly
fought general strike after it had
smashed the 56-hour week on the
Lakes with the powerful anti-un
ion Lake Carriers Assn, match
ing terms won by the union from
shipping companies already un
der contract.
It was the first successful
strike on the Great Lakes since
1904.
you’re a little dissatisfied with
splitting your family into two
or three separate units living
with different relatives?
Or when living in your in
laws’ kitchen gets you (and
them) to the point of open war
fare?
Or when that natty little pup
tent or chicken coop won't
make the grade any longer?
Or when you’re on the receiv
ing end of an eviction notice?
# * *
FIRST THING you do, of
course, is look in the want ads.
After a tedious search, you
come across a tiny section head
ed "‘Rentals’’.
You are surprised (at first)
at the remarkable coincidence
that makes so many of the few
available places have so much
furniture for sale.
It does not take you long,
however, to find out that you
can easily get an apartment or
house if you can afford to buy
a few thousand dollars worth
of “furniture”.
What’s more, cases have been
ed a campaign to seek legislation
to outlaw race-quota schools in
Illinois. State assemblymen here
have been polled on the issue of
presenting a bill in the House to
insure equal educational oppor
tunities for all citizens.
In the STAR series it was re
vealed that Vernon L. Nickell,
now seeking reelection as State
superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, on the GOP ticket, had of
ficially approved the race-quota
schools despite their policies.
Members of the veterans com
mittee against trade school dis
crimination had wired protests
to Nickell; Genera] Omar N.
Bradley, chief of the Veterans
Administration; Mayor Kelly;
Governor Green and to Beer of
the Regional VA.
The Chicago Civil Liberties
Committee had wired General
Bradley that unless all contracts
were cancelled'with the anti-Ne
gro Coyne school it was prepared
to “take such action to abolish
this evil as the law will permit.”
groups
demanded removal of Sec. of Ag
riculture Clinton A. Anderson
this week, after he raised live
stock prices over the objections
of OPA.
reported where this fugitive
kindling wood has actually
been resold by the tenant for
as high as 20 percent of its
price! * * *
SO FAR, so good. But if you
are part of that miserable min
ority (about 98 percent) that
cannot make such a fine invest
ment in furniture, or make the
down payment needed to buy
*
CHICAGO stockyards were flooded with cattle as meat packers
tried to beat expected restoration of June 30th OPA prices. Secre
tary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson made their fears groundless,
however, as he boosted livestock prices.
Big 4 packers speed
up war on price curbs
The Big Four meat packers this week went out to complete
j the killing of price control.
Swift, Armour, Cudahy and
Wilson’s packing companies
about to begin their second round
of negotiations with the United
Packinghouse Workers of Ameri
ca (CIO) have opened up here
With mass layoffs.
The layoffs hit the yards upon
the heels of Sec. of Agriculture
Clinton Anderson’s fat grant of
price boosts to the rebellious
packers.
* # *
CAUGHT in the Big Four’s
mass layoffs are packinghouse
workers with seniority as high as
15 years, union spokesmen
charge.
The layoffs also came as
set to take a strike vote on Sept.
a $12,000 house, there are other
ways open to you.
One is by furnishing the
landlord with a new car, at ceil
ing price.
Another if you are a vet
eran is to apply at one of
the government agencies. All
you need is patience, fortitude,
and a little luck like in win
ning the Irish sweepstakes.
• * •
THERE ARE other ways, too.
The only one recommended is
having a friend who has a place
he can let you have. This is
clearly the best way.
It should be borne in mind,
however, that it is not enough
to succeed in getting a home
through one of these sure-fire
methods. There are certain ob
stacles even then.
One is restrictive covenants.
Another is children. Most land
lords consider it a serious
breach of etiquette for tenants
to have children, and highly un
ethical to have them after they
have rented a hohie without
any. Some of them demand
guarantees.
9th in answer to the packer’s re
fusal to budge in wage negoti
ations.
UPWA leaders declared that
the layoffs were an attempt to
weaken the bargaining strength
of the union while the Big Four
remained adamant in its counter
demands to take away previously
granted concessions.
• • •
“ALTHOUGH the packers have
already drawn blood from Ander
son with price increases, they’re
back to their old game of a sit
down strike to stop the nation's
meat supply unless they get
what they want,” union spokes
men charged.
IT SHOULD be a source of
great satisfaction to veterans,
though, to learn that many real
estate operators will sell or rent
only to them.
They are patriotic fellows,
these landlords. They are par
ticular about whom they fleece.
But they don’t hold a candle
to the good-hearted builders
who are energetically construct
ing hundreds of new automo
bile showrooms, where you can
see the car you can’t get that
will help you find the home
you can’t have.
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THE CHICAGO STAR, SEPTEMBER 7, 191,6